Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 28        The Dedication of the Will               My meat is to do the will of him that sent me--Joh. 4:34               Is Religion Based on Reason or Feeling,'              It has been a matter of controversy time and again which is the true wellspring of religion; and to this question, which is fresh in every age, there are two answers which demand attention.              On the one hand there are many reverent thinkers who trace the roots of religion to the reason. It is because we are reasonable beings that we know the infinite reason, which is God. A dumb beast is not endowed with reason though it has instinct. It is man alone, lifting hi...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 27        The Woman of Samaria               Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water--Joh. 4:10               Scenes by Wells              It is remarkable how many of the choicest scenes of Scripture should be associated with wells. It was by a well that Abraham's servant met with the destined bride of Isaac in that loveliest story of the Book of Genesis. It was by the well that Jacob first cast his eyes on Rachel. It was at a well that one of the crises in the life of Moses came, when he stood up and rescued the daughters of Reuel from the shepherds. An...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 26        The Casual Contacts of Jesus               There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water--Joh. 4:7               The Casual Encounters of Jesus              One notes, in the life of Jesus, how many folk there were who met Him casually. The meetings were in no sense prearranged; they were unplanned and unpremeditated contacts. One may hold that in the deepest sense no meeting with the Lord is really casual. Contingencies are not without the will of Heaven. Still, speaking in the way of men, no one can read the life of Jesus without observing how very full it was of what we call casual encounters. The woman of Samaria had no idea that she was going to meet the Lord beside the well. It was with no ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 25        The Tidings of the Breeze -- Part II               The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit--Joh. 3:8               Resistance to the Wind Brings Music, So Is It with Life in the Spirit              Again there are two elements in this utterance which it is well that we should bear in mind. And the first is that the music of the wind is the music of movement and obstruction. It is because the wind is moving that we hear it, but the music comes out not by movement only. It becomes audible to us in all its voices only when there is resistance in its path. As the breeze...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 24        The Tidings of the Breeze -- Part I               The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit--Joh. 3:8               The Night Wind              This is one of the profoundest sayings that ever fell upon a listening ear, and yet it bears to us every mark of being occasional and unpremeditated. The time was night--the place some quiet cottage--the theme the regeneration of the Spirit. And then it may be, right across the talk, there came the sighing of the night wind around the cottage. And Jesus, whose ear was ever quick to catch and use the parables of nature, said, "...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 22        The Best Wine Last               Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now--Joh. 2:10               With God, the Best Is at the End              Into the story of this memorable marriage I do not propose to go. Rather, I wish to base what I may have to say on this remark of the ruler of the feast. Why, do you think, did this saying so impress John that it lingered ineffaceable in his memory? Was it merely because of the pleasure it evoked to hear his Master's handiwork so praised? I think there was a deeper reason. John was by nature an idealist, loving to find the abstract in the concre...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 20        The Unrecognized Christ               John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not--Joh. 1:26               The Presence of Christ Is Perpetual              It is almost a commonplace to say that the world does not know its greatest men. To be very near is often to be blinded. It is only afterwards, in quiet reflection, that the large outlines of greatness are detected. Yesterday and tomorrow may deceive us, and indeed they very often do, but (as Dora Greenwell says) the real deceiver is today. Now our blessed Lord is different from the greatest in that His presence is a perpetual presence. He is continually moving in the world through the a...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 19        John the Witness-Bearer               John bear witness of him and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me--Joh. 1:15               The Large Place Witnessing Has in Scripture              The thought of witness-bearing finds ample expression in the Bible. "Witness" is one of the key words of the Scripture, occurring in the early records of Genesis and in the writings of prophets and apostles. It makes an interesting study to collect the passages in which the word "witness" is found. Sometimes it is God who is the witness; at other times it is the arching heaven above us. Then we read that when Joshua had made a covenant wit...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 15        The Burning Heart               Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way ?--Luk. 24:32               A Beautiful Story That Lives in Our Hearts              Every detail of this beautiful story lives in the imagination of Christendom. Never a week passes but some earnest heart is travelling with the two down to Emmaus. We see them joined by the stranger on their journey, and then the talk turns on all that has been happening. We see the three entering the house, and sitting down to supper, where the bread is broken. Then the eyes of the two disciples are opened; they recognize that their fellow wayfarer is Christ, and in the very moment of that recognition they glance ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For July 14        The Road to Emmaus               Two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus--Luk. 24:13               The Most Memorable Appearance of the Risen Christ              Of all the appearances of the risen Christ, none has a stronger hold upon Christendom than the one along the road to Emmaus. It has brought light to many darkened hearts, and comfort to innumerable souls. Christ revealed Himself to Mary in the garden, and that will always be precious to the Church. He revealed Himself to the eleven, and to Thomas, and to Peter and John beside the sea of Galilee. But this meeting on the Emmaus road, with its revelation of the living Savior, is engraven on the universal heart.  ...